Children from Mary Elton Primary School with some of the popular poems.
- Credit: North Somerset
A community poetry project to support children’s language development has been launched across North Somerset.
The number of children with some form a speech or language delay is increasing and education experts fear lockdown could set pupils back even further.
North Somerset Council has launched The Poetry Basket to help children improve their language skills and develop a love of literacy.
As part of the scheme, 36 poems have been introduced to children through their nurseries, preschools and childminders.
A council spokesman said: “The idea is that early years practitioners learn the poems and then teach the children face to face, promoting the development of oral communication as well as rhythm, rhyme, memory and enriched vocabulary.”